Peanuts in the news
Some latest research on peanuts and peanut allergies is quite interesting. Researchers studied pregnant women who ate peanuts during their pregnancy and those that didn’t. Then they looked at their children to see if the children had peanut allergies. They found the more peanuts a pregnant woman ate during her pregnancy, the less likely her child was to have a peanut or nut allergy. The study in JAMA Pediatrics followed nearly 11,000 women throughout the women's pregnancy, and their offspring from birth to adolescence. Pregnant women who ate peanuts and other nuts five or more times a month had children with the lowest chance of having peanut or nut allergies. However, these pregnant women also ate more fruits and vegetables than other women in the study. Additionally, they fed their children nuts before age 1. So maybe it was the fruits and vegetables or the early introduction of nuts that led to less nut allergie...